Northern Myanmar: These players are acting strangely!

Chapter 152 There's no hope left, Guan Xinxin's request! I saw Sister Yu that day!
Wang Zixu was taken aback by this completely unfounded remark.

A strange sense of sorrow welled up in his heart, and he himself did not know where this sudden emotion came from.

Guan Xinxin took out another clean glass, poured half a glass of wine, and handed it to Wang Zixu:
"Drink?"

Wang Zixu reached out and took the wine glass, feeling an urge to drink it all in one gulp.

But he didn't dare.

I'm afraid there might be something unclean in the wine.

He casually placed the wine glass on the table next to him and walked towards the window of the room, leaving Guan Xinxin with only his back to him.

Wang Zixu looked out the window and asked:
"Do you regret it?"

Guan Xinxin paused for a moment, her hand holding the wine glass still.

"Bang" sound.

Without warning, the wine glass slipped from her hand and shattered on the ground, shards of glass mixed with amber-colored wine spilling everywhere.

She tried hard to force a smile, but her lips twitched a few times and she failed.

Her expression had already told Wang Zixu the answer.

Guan Xinxin took a deep breath, her voice low and hoarse:
"What do you regret?"

"What right do I have to regret it?"

"Ha, I only hate myself for being so useless."

As she said this, something must have been on her mind, because her voice still carried a hint of undisguised sobbing.

She casually blew her nose and looked up:
Actually, I recognized you just now.

Wang Zixu nodded without turning around.

"I know."

Guan Xinxin remained silent for a moment, hesitated for a long time, and then spoke cautiously in a deliberate tone:
"Is he... alright?"

He was referring to her boyfriend, Sun Yong.

Looking at the pitiful face reflected in the windowpane, Wang Zixu's mind flashed back to the horrific sight of Sun Yong being beaten bloody.

Later, they were matched with a blood type and sent out of the park.

But should he really tell her such a cruel truth?
Wang Zixu casually shrugged and turned around:
"What else can he do? He got beaten up by those guys and now he's learned his lesson, spending all his time typing away in the computer lab."

Guan Xinxin's tense body relaxed:

“Some time ago, someone told me that he was dead, but I didn’t believe it.”

"I knew it, they were lying to me."

A genuine smile finally appeared on her face, a smile full of emotion and very gentle.

If she was a walking corpse just now, she is now like a patient who has just been rescued from the ICU.

With the will to survive, a glimmer of hope seemed to rekindle in this bleak world.

Wang Zixu opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing.

Guan Xinxin was still immersed in the emotions she had just experienced.

She looked at Wang Zixu, her eyes filled with a pleading expression:
"I...I have a favor to ask."

Wang Zixu looked at her:
"You said."

Guan Xinxin slowly said:
"Could you please pass on a message to him for me?"

"Just tell him I ran away."

Wang Zixu's face instantly turned cold:
"impossible."

His voice wasn't loud, but it was unusually resolute.

“First of all, this is against the park’s regulations, and I can’t take that risk for you.”

"Secondly, even if I told him, do you think he would believe me?"

Why should he believe a complete stranger like me?

"Finally, do you think anything is more ridiculous than 'a weak woman who can't even kill a chicken escapes from the park'?"

Guan Xinxin did not argue; instead, she remained unusually calm, a calmness that was somewhat frightening.

"I know, I know everything."

"But I had no other choice."

Her voice was as light as a breeze, easily dissipated.
"I...I have no hope left."

Wang Zixu frowned:
"No hope?"

He didn't immediately grasp the meaning of those words.

But when his gaze inadvertently swept over Guan Xinxin's bare arms, he immediately understood.

On his fair skin, there were several tiny needle marks near the veins on his elbow.

[Holy crap... no wonder she said that, so that's why...]

[Sigh, what a pity. Such a good girl, I never thought she'd end up ice skating; it's truly ruined her life.]

[It feels like you were forced, doesn't it?] [Be confident, remove the phrase "feels like." Once you're in a place like this, you have no choice.]

Whether she was forced or not, arguing about it now is pointless. Once she gets involved with this stuff, her life is ruined, especially since she's still in the park.

[Oh... I see. Guan Xinxin is completely out of the running, so she's trying to lie to her boyfriend, making him think she's run away, hoping he'll give up and escape on his own when he gets the chance, leaving her alone, is that what you mean?]

That's probably it. She knew she couldn't get out, and she didn't want to be a burden to her boyfriend.

Damn, yet another human tragedy.

[Actually, there's no such thing as being a burden. The outside world is in the same terrible state; very few can escape, and most will likely be caught again.]

Guan Xinxin looked utterly dejected, staring blankly at the ground, and slowly uttered two words:

"Please."

She paused, then said in a trembling voice:

"On my second day here, I was attacked by that bunch of beasts..."

Do you remember when we were in the car?

"I am not a shameless person."

"I had already foreseen my fate back then, and now it's exactly as I expected..."

She was once a girl full of dreams for the future, looking forward to the future with her boyfriend.

They thought that this "high-paying overseas work" opportunity would allow them to save enough money to get married back in their hometown, open a small shop, and live a peaceful and stable life.

But reality dealt them an incredibly heavy blow.

Wang Zixu felt uneasy listening to her story, but still refused with a cold face:

"Don't beg me."

"It is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself."

next second.

Wang Zixu watched helplessly as the last glimmer of light in her pupils went out, turning her completely ashen, devoid of any emotion.

Seeing this, Wang Zixu suddenly felt a pang of regret.

I regret keeping her.

His original intention was to make her suffer less while she was with him, but he never expected that a few words would turn things into this.

"He... I'll pass on the message for you."

Wang Zixu opened his mouth, almost blurting out his thoughts, but then swallowed the words back down.

He couldn't talk about Sun Yong's situation, but he eventually compromised and agreed to Guan Xinxin's request.

Since it's all fake anyway, and I'm not at risk, I might as well leave her with something to remember me by.

As long as a person is alive, there is still a chance.

Guan Xinxin let out a sigh of relief, as if she had used all her strength to say:
"Thank you."

The music in the room continued playing tirelessly.

Wang Zixu and Guan Xinxin were no longer emotional, and neither of them spoke.

After a long while, Guan Xinxin asked a dry question:
"Do you want to do it?"

Wang Zixu didn't even look up and decisively said:

"Need not."

"Stay here for a while, and leave when your time is up."

Guan Xinxin seemed to understand Wang Zixu's intention and didn't press further. She sat silently on the sofa, like a lifeless sculpture.

[Seriously? The two of them are just sitting there, spacing out?]

[How boring! I never expected it to end like this.]

[I guessed the beginning, but I didn't expect this ending. Hey bro, at least come up with something! There are tens of thousands of people in the live stream, are we just going to watch you two staring at the ceiling? Everyone's leaving soon!]

[Exactly, how about we just talk about life, or ideals?]

[The person upstairs is joking. Look at the state they're in now, what ideals do they have left? Their ideal is just to escape the park.]

The two stayed in the room for an unknown amount of time.

No one spoke for a moment; the atmosphere was so awkward you could practically dig a three-bedroom apartment out of your toes.

Just as Wang Zixu was pondering whether to log off like last time, Guan Xinxin suddenly spoke up:
I saw Sister Yu a couple of days ago.

She raised her head, looked at Wang Zixu, and said thoughtfully:

"You should be just like them now, right?"

"This news might be useful to you."

"That day, Sister Yu came here with Ah Long and a few other people I didn't recognize, in the conference room on the first floor."

"I happened to be passing by that day and overheard it."

Wang Zixu narrowed his eyes slightly, immediately becoming extremely alert, and asked:
"What did they say?"

(End of this chapter)